Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWhen God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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